Taxonomy vs Snark - What's the difference?
taxonomy | snark |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Snide remarks.
To express oneself in a snarky fashion
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times
, passage=Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked , seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.” }}
(obsolete) To snort.
(mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
(particle) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a proper noun snark is
a fictional animal in '' ''(the hunting of the snark) .taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologysnark
English
Etymology 1
Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, and English snort, and snore. Noun sense of “snide remarks” derived from snarky (1906), from snark (v.) "to snort" (1866) by onomatopoiea. (en)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (snide comments) sarcasmVerb
(en verb)citation
Derived terms
* snarkerEtymology 2
From (Snark), coined by (Lewis Carroll) as a nonce word in 1874 (The Hunting of the Snark), about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical graph”, named as such in 1976 by (Martin Gardner) for their elusiveness.Martin Gardner, (Mathematical Games), (Scientific American), issue 234, volume 4, pp. 126–130, 1976.Noun
(en noun)- Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks .